Author Archives: Joel

The other day we talked about Obama getting an award for (snicker) transparency in government – in a closed meeting. Now I hear a number of the “transparency” efforts that did take place are about to go. One government official, … Continue reading →

I’d gotten so used to being cold all the time. Lately I’ve only been cold in the mornings. Gradually it became an important question whether I had enough t-shirts, rather than sweatshirts, to get through to the next shot at … Continue reading →

“Hot Redheads” is a very common image search term. Very, very common.

GC Guy’s Wife went to the big town about fifty miles away today. She asked if there was something she could pick up there for me. Half joking, I told her I needed a belt holster for a .44 snubby. … Continue reading →

It’s one of those things where you wake up and immediately something’s wrong. In winter, Click always sleeps with me. She doesn’t spend the whole night there, because she’s a nocturnal hunter. But in the morning she’s always there. If … Continue reading →

Okay, first he gets the Nobel peace prize forty seconds after the election, before he even had a chance to break any of his campaign promises about ending the wars – and certainly before he got us all into a … Continue reading →

GC Guy was really excited. For the first time in the history of the company, the plant that produces cases for his geiger counters was shipping them to him by the pallet! Big time! Er…That was almost two weeks ago. … Continue reading →

H/T to Robb Allen

GC Guy called me on Saturday, all excited. “We’re getting a building for the geiger counters!” he crowed. M and Landlady happened to be standing there, so I hit the speaker button. Hilarity ensued. I assumed he meant he’d rented … Continue reading →

I got nothin’ today. Here are some funny pictures.

This morning I went over to D&L’s to trade an hour’s labor for a shot at their washing machine. The labor they wanted done was simplicity itself: Change the oil in their Onan and Champion generators. Everything went swimmingly, and … Continue reading →

J and I have high hopes for Gaia, because we’d like to have a horse or two around his place who doesn’t think anybody but H is beneath their notice. So we’ve been spending a lot of time trying to … Continue reading →

Spring is here, and with it the first updates to M’s Dome. One of these days I really hope to report that M’s Dome has become M’s earth-bermed home, and that we can stop updating the damned thing. But until … Continue reading →

…and she delivered! Alcohol! Tobacco! AND Firearms! Yeah, baby! Also coffee, oranges, and (pant) corned beef. Actually I’ll be paying for the wheelgun, but in tractor labor for M. By strange historical coincidence, this is the very wheelgun (44 Special, … Continue reading →

Heh… Ban sought on texting while lawmaking

As regular TUAK readers know, I’ve had a thing or two to say about pink guns here. Today Claire mentioned her opinion on the subject, and some of the comments she got led me to believe some folks need to … Continue reading →

Our hero may have wanted to keep a narrower – er, smaller – no, I mean lower profile… Here’s a surprise – Action Heroes apparently make lousy cops in real life, too! According to beefy action film star Steven Seagal’s … Continue reading →

Steven Seagal teams up with patriotic ol’ Sheriff Joe and pours his amazing marshal arts bulk into a tank for a violent televised raid on a – chicken-raising operation? In a tank? C’mon… PHOENIX — Sheriff Joe Arpaio rolled out … Continue reading →

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